Conservation as tool for assertion: How Banni pastoralists took matters in own hands

The Maldhari community of the area used various sections of forest rights act to regain livelihood options 

Great change in Little Rann: How solar power is helping Gujarat's salt workers

Great change in Little Rann: How salt workers on the brink in Gujarat brought about a solar revolution

In this first part of a three-part series, here is a look at how Agariya salt workers in the Little Rann of Kutch transformed their lives by …

Only one male Great Indian Bustard left in Gujarat: experts

Most males in the area have fallen prey to power lines built by Suzlon and GETCO

How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora

A weed maligned

A fearsome weed in the Rann of Kutch is hardly, as is feared, sucking the land to death

Save these camels of Kutch

The Kharai is a unique breed of camel found only in Kutch, which feeds on mangroves. But salt-making industries operating in the area are …

Greener pastures: How Indian pastoralists are being aided to return to their traditional livelihood

Change is taking place in the way the Centre and state governments look at pastoralism; the belief that livestock management is done better …

Saurashtra, Kutch on red alert as Vayu approaches

The cyclone is likely to hit the Gujarat coast early on June 13

Earthquakes hit Gujarat and Maharashtra

Four tremors hit Gujarat’s Saurashtra and Kutch regions early on January 20, while a 3.6 tremor hit Palghar near Thane in Maharashtra in …

Gujarat government backtracks on granting CFR rights to Maldharis 

Despite granting 47 Community Forest Rights in 2015, the government, through a notification dated September 27, has asked for surveying the land, …

Indian scientists develop technology for harvesting water from dew

A suitably designed dew-cum-rainwater harvesting plant can potentially harvest 320- 325 mm of rainwater and atmospheric moisture during a year

Lumpy skin disease epidemic in Saurashtra; 39 animals dead: Govt

Government takes measures to control epidemic spread in animals; over 25,000 cattle vaccinated across affected areas   

Great change in Little Rann: How solar revolution helped cut salt industry’s carbon tracks

Several rounds of research and help from non-profits, solar pumps suitable for salt makers’ needs was designed   

NGT upholds rights of pastoralists in Banni grasslands, wants encroachments removed

The court highlighted the lack of coordination between revenue and forest departments for the problem 

Climate change pushed Indus Valley migrants west to east: Study

The research found new evidence at two sites in the Great Rann of Kutch and Thar desert to come to this conclusion

Sparse monsoon 2021: Should Gujarat prepare for drought?

Amid a derailing COVID-19 pandemic, after Cyclone Tauktae devastation, comes a deep deficit in rainfall

How this Gujarat man came to be celebrated as a Biblical character

Bharat Patel gets the fisherfolk of Kutch, affected by a coal power plant funded by the World Bank, a historic victory in the US Supreme Court

Sudden death

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 13, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Killing ground

Gujarat wetlands turn into graveyards for flamingos colliding with electric and telephone wires

Duplicity

Scorching salt

As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …

Rising sea temperatures pose a threat to coral reefs: Study

Three mass bleaching events occurred in 1998, 2010 and 2016, impacting five major Indian coral reef regions — in Andaman, Nicobar, …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 2, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal